Just trying to get a remotly realistic wood and water texture. I plan on
adding some ripples to the bottom of the post where it touches the water.

comments? suggestions?

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Kevin Loney wrote:
> comments? suggestions?

The wood would be greyer for being that weathered.

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the water looks like as if it is a little bit frozen. the shape of the wood 
lokks very plastic but the fibres could get more irregular.


Kevin Loney wrote:

> Just trying to get a remotly realistic wood and water texture. I plan on
> adding some ripples to the bottom of the post where it touches the water.
> 
> comments? suggestions?
> 

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Have you tried Christoph Hormann's realistic sine-water?
You can find it on his homepage directly at:

http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/pov/water/index.html


Regards,
Hugo

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> Have you tried Christoph Hormann's realistic sine-water?
> You can find it on his homepage directly at:

OH I'm sorry! This is not the sine-water! This is another of Chris's
attempts at realistic water... For his excellent and more recent sine-water
that animates well and looks better .... well, please browse these
newsgroups....

Regards,
Hugo

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Hugo wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried Christoph Hormann's realistic sine-water?
> > You can find it on his homepage directly at:
> 
> OH I'm sorry! This is not the sine-water! This is another of Chris's
> attempts at realistic water... For his excellent and more recent sine-water
> that animates well and looks better .... well, please browse these
> newsgroups....
> 

Or see:

http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/pov/water/water_inc.html

But it isn't very good for a cylindrical water pot like this.

Christoph

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Kevin Loney wrote:
> 
> Just trying to get a remotly realistic wood and water texture. I plan on
> adding some ripples to the bottom of the post where it touches the water.
> 
> comments? suggestions?
> 

Some closer look at the wood would be interesting.

Christoph

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In article <3c6b3927@news.povray.org>, "Kevin Loney" <klo### [at] pt2mcom> 
wrote:

> Just trying to get a remotly realistic wood and water texture. I plan on
> adding some ripples to the bottom of the post where it touches the water.
> 
> comments? suggestions?

For the water: use a completely transparent texture (rgbf 1), and let 
absorbing media (or fade_color) and reflections do the coloration...this 
is the technique I use for nearly any transparent colored material.
Probably most important: use fresnel variable reflection. Don't forget 
the ior, of course, you will find some useful iors in consts.inc. There 
are many possible ways to do the actual ripples, a simple isosurface 
will be most realistic but relatively slow, or you could use a cylinder 
with a normal, or a height field clipped with a cylinder.

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